Audacity Forum

billw58 wrote:given that the many dire warnings not to mess with the project structure don't seem to work very well.

Actually I think they are working quite well.
Before we had the "dire warnings" the "Oh sh*t my project won't open" was a very regular occurrence but much less so recently.

"WAV" format is preferred.

ssmike123 wrote: it is one file, but multiple tracks

ssmike123 wrote:I want to import an audio book that is on multiple MP3 files

Isn't that a contradiction?

Unfortunately that file does not help.
An AUP file is not an audio file, it is part of an Audacity Project.
AUP files do not contain any audio data.
See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Projects

ssmike123 wrote: It would be great if I could make a separation between each imported CD on this large file.

You mean that the full recording is several hours and you want to split it into shorter sections?
Are you wanting to do any other editing of the audio or just compile the MP3s into a series of CDs?

To get that "distant" sound, record quite close up (not really close, but close enough to get a good signal) then roll off a bit of the bass and add some reverb. The default values in GVerb suck and the Audacity version of GVerb does not support presets. If you are on Windows, try the &quo...

I can put the pitch effect to make myself sound like a chipmunk You mean using an effect on the mixer? If so then it sounds like the mixer is sending a "dry" mix (pre-Ez, Pre-Fx) out through the USB. Audacity can't do anything about that, it will just record the data that is sent to it. C...

billw58 wrote:The OP is talking about mod-script-pipe.

Thanks Bill. I realised that after I saw the "Ding Ding" post.

Technically, Audacity Projects are now reliable, but I think it's taking some of us a little time to get used to that fact given that many of us have been messing round with unstable alpha and beta versions for so long, but as Bill says we should get used to that fact so as not to prejudice new user...

There is a PPA for Ubuntu daily builds: https://launchpad.net/~audacity-team/+archive/daily